Category Archives: Computers and IT

Computer Hardware

I am dealing with computers since I was in elementary school. For about the same time period, I am trying to keep / preserve some of my old computers or collect similar ones afterwards.

Collection highlights

BASF 8″ Floppy
various CMOS Chipsets
Robotron KC 85/3 colour computer
Schneider JOYCE Computer
Schneider PC7640 Computer
GTempCO 6.5″ 10MB HDD
NEC 5.5″ HDD (1988)
Quantum 3.5″ HDD (1989)
Western Digital 20MB HDD (1989)
Intel Pentium CPU (1993)
Intel Pentium MMX CPU (1995)
Intel Pentium II CPU (1996)
RFT MR201 Calculator

LAMP

I just finished my setting up my new LAMP server (Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS).

I decided to go for the good old fashioned by-hand setup instead of the Plesk configuration I used in the recent past. Excuses to all of you who do not understand, by this was on my list for quite some time and since this blog is running on the new server as well, I thought it would be worth a post.

Humble Bundle and more

It’s time for the sixth Humble Bundle. Well, actually it already been some time and it’s only ten days left, in case you care for nice games from independent studios were you can choose yourself what to to pay! I bought mine yesterday and already had a short session with one of the six games included.

And since I am writing about games, I’ll just go on and mention that I also got caught (for reasons I myself have not yet fully figured out) by The Simpson: Tapped Out [SaMeOrigin] and Wordfeud [SaMeWord] on my iPad recently. They work pretty well for the five minutes before going to bed or in the morning after the little one got his first dish of the day … at least the latter one also exists for Android (link).